From your profile, scroll down to the bottom part of the screen. Turn off the switch for Save to Camera Roll option. A grey switch means that the feature is turned off. Once switched off, automatic saving of photos on your iPhone is disabled. If you are an Android user, follow these steps to disable automatic saving of photos on Facebook Messenger:. Tap on the switch to the right of Save Photos. A blue-colored or green-colored switch means that the feature is turned on while a grey switch means that it is turned off.
Once switched off, automatic saving of photos on your Android device is disabled. Q: After disabling the auto-save feature on my phone, will my device delete all the saved Messenger photos on it? A: Turning off Facebook Messenger from auto-saving photos will not delete previously saved photos on your phone.
In most recent devices, the only auto sync you have to worry about for photos is buried in your Google Photos app. Once the app is open, tap the hamburger or horizontal menu to open up a new options slate from the left side. Give that a tap, and now you can toggle the setting on and off to stop your pictures from automatically being backed up.
The process to disable auto photo syncing in Google Plus is the exact same for Google Photos. In a more recent version of Google Plus, you can even see how it directs you to Google Photos for it. With all of these syncing features turned off, your photos will only go exactly where you want them.
If you need any more help disabling photo related features, please ask any questions you have down below. Featured Image Credit. Jagdish is an Android troubleshooter who loves talking tech and discussing technology's impact on humanity.
Privacy advocates have pointed out that Facebook users are much more likely to post photos that are already uploaded, often inadvertently. Facebook's automatic photo syncing is not activated by default, but you may have enabled the feature without realizing you were doing so. Last week I was contacted by a reader who had done just that: somehow his iPhone photos were being uploaded to his Facebook account. He didn't remember activating the option and couldn't figure out how to disable it.
Even if you knowingly signed up for Facebook's photo syncs and are now having second thoughts, you'll be glad to learn that disabling Facebook's automatic photo uploads from your iPhone, iPad, or Android device takes only a couple of seconds. Here's the nutshell version:. Now when you press Photo in the Facebook app you'll be prompted to re-enable photo and video sharing by changing the iPhone privacy setting back to On.
A quick look at the new Facebook privacy options More of Facebook's growing pains were exhibited by founding sister Randi Zuckerberg's plea for "human decency" after one of her private photos was made public via a tweet by the sister of one of Ms. Zuckerberg's friends. Ask permission before sharing? If you end up downloading each and every image anyway, then it's probably best to leave this feature active.
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Here's how you can do it: Open WhatsApp, make sure you are seeing the main window - where all your chats are displayed. Tap each one and disable auto-downloads by unchecking all three options - Images, Audio and Video. Here's how: Download Quickpic and open the app.
Navigate to the WhatsApp media folders. Long-press the WhatsApp Images folder and make sure that it is selected.
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